Update

Well, pretty uneventful week or so of poker. Managed to cash in basically every tourney I played in without ever really going deep in anything last week. I dont THINK my mid-late game is that bad I really think i have been running kinda bad late in tourneys but I'm gonna do some review of my play the next few days and try to figure some things out. While I cashed in everything last week I cashed in NOTHING on Sunday. Sattied into 3 tourneys (Sunday WU, Sunday Million($530), and FTP 750k) and bought into the Sunday Brawl and Sunday Second Chance. I think I made it to the first break in one of these tourneys and cashed in none of them. I think the $530 Million equaled the largest buyin I had played online and I managed to last 4 hands. Here is the bustout hand.

I know some will say I should fold p/f here but I think playing hands like these in position w/ deep stacks is profitable, especially in a tourney where the field is as weak as the Sunday Million. I almost flatted the flop to make sure a scare card didnt' come down on the turn but decided I needed to go ahead and protect here and I could always check behind on the turn. I REALLY didnt expect him to 3-bet me here. When he did, my first thought was a set. But since I had a j and a 9 he was unlikely to have jj or 99. So that leaves 77 in his range. I didnt put 10-8 in his range. I thought possibly a flush draw and possibly an overpair. Since only one of the hands I had in his range had me in trouble (77) I decided I needed to go ahead and get the chips in here. I don't think I played it bad want I'll have a chance this w/e to discuss the hand w/ some other people.

POKERSTARS GAME #14868059355: TOURNAMENT #74372571, $500+$30 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL I (25/50) - 2008/01/27 - 16:34:22 (ET)
Table '74372571 253' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: ghost crab (10244 in chips)
Seat 2: Mr_kjeks (9831 in chips)
Seat 3: krmont22 (9850 in chips)
Seat 4: Colombo218 (10100 in chips)
Seat 5: sep_87 (9925 in chips)
Seat 6: gank (9925 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 7: toweliestar (10000 in chips)
Seat 8: trippkirk (9825 in chips)
Seat 9: avolioalex (10300 in chips)
ghost crab: posts small blind 25
Mr_kjeks: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trippkirk [9c Jc]
krmont22: folds
Colombo218: folds
sep_87: folds
gank: folds
toweliestar: raises 100 to 150
trippkirk: calls 150
avolioalex: folds
ghost crab: folds
Mr_kjeks: folds
*** FLOP *** [9h Js 7h]
toweliestar: bets 250
trippkirk: raises 400 to 650
toweliestar: raises 1300 to 1950
trippkirk: raises 7725 to 9675 and is all-in
toweliestar: calls 7725
*** TURN *** [9h Js 7h] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [9h Js 7h 5h] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
toweliestar: shows [8h Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
trippkirk: shows [9c Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
toweliestar collected 19725 from pot

Anyway, gg me.

In the FTP 750k, a guy called me 3 bet p/f for 1/3 of his stack w/ 33 v. my AA and obv flopped bottom set....gg me. All in all, I don't think I played bad aside from the brawl where I 4 bet a SUPER LAG button 3-better w/ AJ from the cutoff and he wakes up w/ AQ. While I had a bad Sunday I really feel good about my tourney play recently. The past month or so have really struggled to get ahold of any chips early and this week I seem to be stacked up in everything I've played.

Been playing more cash sessions of late as well and have been playing a lot tighter style than I was previously. During the week while I'm working I have decided every night I'm going to play a timed 2 hr session 4-tabling 2/4 full ring games. Through about 3k hands so far I'm up about $1500. I'm going to continue to grind these games and hopefully I will be able to use these cash games to held steady the variance of MTT's. I'm still in the midst of putting together a list of goals for 2008. I really have decided its going to be Jan-July 2008 goals since I have some goals I wanna hit before the WSOP. I'll post those soon. Aside from poker, I'm heading to Breckenridge, CO this w/e to ski w/ Romes23, DG0016, and Pokerskibum. I suck at skiing but it should be a good time. Will be playing poker at night so hopefully I can make some money w/ 3 good poker minds to help me out. Will try and update if I do any damage this week/weekend.